Thousands of masked students marched...

BURMESE PROTEST.

August 4, 1988

BANGKOK, THAILAND — BURMESE PROTEST. Thousands of masked students marched through Rangoon on Wednesday to denounce new hard-line President Sein Lwin, and he put the Burmese capital under martial law. Witnesses said many workers and some saffron-robed Buddhist monks joined in. Most protesters appeared to be high school students. No violence was reported, unlike student riots in March and June. Sein Lwin is widely held responsible for ruthless suppression of the March riots.